Lot Archive

Lot

№ 784

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16 December 2003

Hammer Price:
£190

Three: Private W. Carter, Coldstream Guards

1914-15 Star (11948 Pte., C. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (11948 Pte., C. Gds.) good very fine and better (3) £80-100

Private Wilfred Carter was born in Wellington, New Zealand and enlisted at Whitehall, Middlesex. Serving with the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards he was killed in action, France/Flanders, on 10 May 1915, aged 24 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial.